Lent Meditation Week 2 Be Still

Lent Meditation Week 2  Be Still

Settle into your quiet place and rest a while concentrating on your breath.  Breath from your stomach and on every exhalation imagine all negativity's leaving in the form of black smoke and on inhalation imagine pure white light entering you purifying the negativity's.  Do this for as long as you feel comfortable. Any thoughts that arise notice them and let them go.

For the second part of the meditation you are going to clear your mind and “be still”.  Put your hands together, thumb to thumb finger to finger in the classic prayer position. Spend sometime concentrating on each finger and as thoughts arise just observe them, be aware of them and imagine them floating away, all the time going back to concentrating on your fingers.  The purpose of this exercise is to train your mind and to quieten the random thoughts that fill our minds.  It also trains you to become objective and able to observe your thoughts as if you are now in control.  

For the third part of the meditation you are going to just be in the moment.  Open your eyes and take in your surroundings, know that you are sat there doing this.  Be aware of the smells, light levels, the colours you see in the room, how warm or cold it is.  If any thoughts take you away bring your mind back to the room.  Now feel how amazing it is to be sat in that room, alive, breathing, happy, sad etc. How amazing it is to have this life and how rare and precious it is. Continue to develop a sense of “in the moment awareness” for as long as you feel comfortable.   

Dedicate your meditation for the good of all living beings and offer it to God or the universe which ever you feel comfortable with.